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Rope - by Maurice Riordan (Paperback)

Name: Rope - by Maurice Riordan (Paperback)
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SKU: 1010435956
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Rope presents an alluring and provocative array of insights as it follows a mind on the move, ever curious and restlessly making connections.
Author(s): Maurice Riordan
64 Pages
Poetry, General

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Rope presents an alluring and provocative array of insights as it follows a mind on the move, ever curious and restlessly making connections.

Nuggets of wisdom, snippets of anecdote and choice quotations are collected here, signposted by suggestive shoulder notes. Together they form a kind of contemporary commonplace book, accumulating with associative loops and echoes.

Across three prose sections, Maurice Riordan knots together strands including scientific lore, colour theory and AI, philosophy, ethics and psychoanalysis. There are instructive revelations on the art of poetry and literature - whether the 'folly of literary ambition' or the 'sinuous garland of plagiarism' - gleaned from a lifetime of reading and writing. The middle section delves into the author's personal history, evoking a childhood in rural Cork - 'I was born into a horse-drawn candlelit world' - and a 'new self' forged in fatherhood.

Riordan is an intimate and jocular narrator throughout, calling upon everyone from Shakespeare to Schrödinger, Sappho to Siri to share this series of piquant and unforgettable discoveries.

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"Riordan is an exceptionally accomplished herdsman of words...He is aided by a dextrous imagination and gift for self-ridicule, an underwritten composure that only comes, if you are lucky, with maturity." - Kate Kellaway, Observer

Specifications

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 64

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: General

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback

Author: Maurice Riordan

Language: English

Street Date: September 22, 2026

TCIN: 1010435956

UPC: 9780571401482

Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-4524

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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